darckr is one year old, and this anniversary version presents so many improvements that it deserves a major release number! So it will be the 1.00 (beta...)

darckr now prevents downloading photos. I had to make this because several users (8 out of several ten thousand :-)) complained that Darckr was violating their 'no download' option, and asked for being 'blacklisted'. I use the same blank image system as Flickr does for that purpose. However, the large size can be viewed if available, like in several other flickr viewers.

darckr now is the most user-customizable ever flickr viewer. Borders and shadows save you the burden of making your own, so you can keep your pictures 'flat' and let your viewers decide whether they want a shadow, and a border, or not...

Now, opening the 'options' pane does not change the page. Just click on the 'options' link in the menu, top right, and the options pane lides out. Click again for sliding it back in.

darckr provides 'embed codes' for all its pages. Just click on the 'embedcode' link in the menu, top right.

the sets history display has been discontinued, because it put too much strain on the server. It could be restored in the future if the flickr api provides accurate date information along with set lists.

Version 0.xx

21 January 2008

v0.29

big upgrade

darckr now has a logo!

changed the behavior of cookies. Added a "remember" link to save current settings

improved the authorization management. Now, darckr remembers that you have granted him "write" permissions.

streaming is much nicer.

adding lines and colums is simplified.

bug in comment text when returning to the page being commented has been fixed.

1 December 2007

v0.28

big news!

added a new search page!!!

25 November 2007

v0.27

significant improvements

addded preloading to the single photo view

addded keyboard handling to the single photo view

improved page load speed by using a compressed mootools script

5 November 2007

v0.26

major evolution

full handling of utf-8 encoding

1 November 2007

v0.25

minor evolution

added handling of number of photos and their dimensions in "recent" view

corrected bug when switching to comments from group mode and the user is not yet authenticated

10 October 2007

v0.22

bug fix

improved the menu sliding

9 October 2007

v0.20

evolution

some software engeneering and code cleaning

introduced the use of Mootools - the beginning of a new era

menus automatically hide to leave room to pictures

8 October 2007

v0.19

bug fixes

improved handling of titles with weird chars

corrected a link bug in the darckrinflickr.js script

corrected a page change bug in mine and username modes

2 October 2007

v0.18

several big improvements

added streaming to both set and explore views

improved the grease monkey darckrinflickr.js script so it now helps viewing sets and groups gracefully

corrected several link bugs in set view

now the "sets" view does not stall any more when a user has many sets to display

14 September 2007

v0.17

slight improve

added a blacklist to allow for filtering out the users asking so

improved handling of a set user

14 September 2007

v0.16

major improve

added a single photo page

3 September 2007

v0.14

major changes

Now streaming and preloading is available for "username"

Improved the behaviour of "username" wrt. the cookie storing the most recent username

Improved the options menu

1 September 2007

v0.13

minor editorial changes

Improved the welcome page presentation

Improved the html meta tags

Corrected bug in the options menu

5 July 2007

v0.12

important new functionality

Added auto next page load simply by reaching the bottom of the page

Added the possibility to partially edit image properties

Make a photo public

Make a photo private

27 June 2007

v0.11

important new functionality and bug fixes

Added the possibility to browse several pages

Added separate count/num settings per selected image size

12 May 2007

v0.10

important new functionality and bug fixes

display the sets for a given user. Sets are presented in a calendar way, the date considered being the taken date of the first picture in the set. This hence reflects the history of a stream, and is wonderful to share pictures with friends and family.

corrected bug when choosing "comments" in username mode for the first time

added "permalinks" page : links that you can copy and share with friends.

15 April 2007

v0.09

bug fixes and improvements

add tags to your own photos (the api does not allow tagging other people's pictures)

corrected bug that redirected you to the welcome page when reauthenticating

lists your contact's photos in reverse order when commenting

improved response times by using Ajax

correct handling of UTF-8 characters

hides already commented photos

auto refresh of the post comments page, and better handling of the pending comments. It is now fully automatic.

3 April 2007

v0.08

quick fix

adds help tooltips to the menu and options

2 April 2007

v0.07

many improvements

now using the domain "www.darckr.com" (the free hosting was down too often)

added a page to display your own photos

added support to search preferences

added quick options menu below the main menu

cleaned the welcome page and moved items to auxiliary pages

added a "help" page (although a bit "raw" for the moment)

added support for different authentication levels

AND added the possibility to comment photos from within darckr

... and you'll see the rest

16 March 2007

v0.06

compatibility issue fix

this version makes the comment ABOVE comments script compatible with QuickComment